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...movement (much to Yale’s discomfiture). The city is small enough that Yale students play an active role—symbolized by Ward 1 of the Board of Aldermen, the equivalent of the city council, which is comprised almost entirely of undergraduate dorms. Earlier this month, incumbent Alderman Ben Healey, a Yale senior, defeated fellow senior Dan Kruger in one of New Haven’s hardest-fought races. Town-gown relations are contentious, but the Berlin wall between Yale’s campus and surrounding neighborhoods seems finally to be softening...
...composer, John Halle, is also a New Haven alderman representing the Green Party. He is no fan of Summers the economist, Summers the president, or Summers...
...stuck. The room is filling with smoke. I'm scared." PETER ALDERMAN in an e-mail to his mother before he died, sent on his BlackBerry at 9:25 a.m. from the north tower of the World Trade Center, quoted in a newly released 9/11 transcript...
...investigation has also revealed that Jackson is more closely involved with the club than he had disclosed when he spoke in front of E2 last week. In 2002, it turns out, Jackson wrote a letter to the police chief and one to a local alderman on behalf of the club owner, urging that E2 be allowed to remain open despite its transgressions. E2's owner, Dwain Kyles, has been friends with Jackson since Kyles was a child. And Kyles is, like Jackson, a bona fide member of the black political establishment. His father Samuel (Billy) Kyles was a close friend...
...week's end, Jackson's role had left bad feelings among some segments of African-American Chicago, precipitating rare open criticism of the civil rights leader. Alderman Madeline Haithcock said Jackson was "with the victims one minute, holding prayer vigils" and "with his friends the next," and Pastor Lance Davis of the J. Claude Allen CME church called Jackson's actions "disingenuous." He wants an investigation too--into Jackson. --By David E. Thigpen/Chicago